TripAdvisor Reviews Terra Nostra Garden Hotel São Miguel

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... lounge as well as the resident show company there has been a singer, comedian & impressionist & a classical pianist.Usually by now, 3 days into the holiday, my camera would have been snapping away but there is very little to snap at the moment.

... cave is actually a Vocanic tube created by a lava flow. It was pretty cool - different from the underground mines we see here. There are two tubes running one on top of the other and you can see both due to some parts of the bottom of the top tube caving in. Really cool. We also watched a short video that explains how the islands were created above the triple junction between three tectonic plates (the North American Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate). After ...

Weirdly enough, the name Furnas is pronounced exactly like the device that heats our homes. And it is a main area for volcanic heat on the island. Our day started off in sunshine with clouds. Hurray! First stop was a black sand beach for me to get my feet in the ocean. The water was cold even for hearty Canadians. They do have a number of manmade pools around the island (similar to Australia) for safe swimming. We saw some scuba divers diving in one of the bays today also. ...

... have had some meals with the "Cambodia" people--four friends from Canada who have traveled extensively throughout the world and had wonderful stories about their time in Southeast Asia. Their favorite place to visit is Cambodia where the people are the most hospitable in the world and they get five star hotels for $20 a night with roses in the room. In comparison, John and I seem like a couple of duds. Greg and Jaye have at ...

... be backing up! Well, we do meet a tractor, but thank goodness it's at a crossroad and we get past and back on the main road and arrive in Mosteiros. Skipping forward after a good walk in Mosteiros we drive home and decide dinner out at the local restaurant is the the dinner plan. Of course, unless it's closed . Yep. So, is there another nearby? Well, Tripadvisor, Google,and our GPS all agree that there is, but they're all wrong. We follow Google & Jill (GPS) ...